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Vizjak P, Kamp D, Hepp N, Scacchetti A, Gonzalez Pisfil M, Bartho J, Halic M, Becker PB, Smolle M, Stigler J, Mueller-Planitz F. ISWI catalyzes nucleosome sliding in condensed nucleosome arrays. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2024:10.1038/s41594-024-01290-x. [PMID: 38664566 DOI: 10.1038/s41594-024-01290-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2022] [Accepted: 03/25/2024] [Indexed: 05/07/2024]
Abstract
How chromatin enzymes work in condensed chromatin and how they maintain diffusional mobility inside remains unexplored. Here we investigated these challenges using the Drosophila ISWI remodeling ATPase, which slides nucleosomes along DNA. Folding of chromatin fibers did not affect sliding in vitro. Catalytic rates were also comparable in- and outside of chromatin condensates. ISWI cross-links and thereby stiffens condensates, except when ATP hydrolysis is possible. Active hydrolysis is also required for ISWI's mobility in condensates. Energy from ATP hydrolysis therefore fuels ISWI's diffusion through chromatin and prevents ISWI from cross-linking chromatin. Molecular dynamics simulations of a 'monkey-bar' model in which ISWI grabs onto neighboring nucleosomes, then withdraws from one before rebinding another in an ATP hydrolysis-dependent manner, qualitatively agree with our data. We speculate that monkey-bar mechanisms could be shared with other chromatin factors and that changes in chromatin dynamics caused by mutations in remodelers could contribute to pathologies.
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- Petra Vizjak
- Institute of Physiological Chemistry, Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Department of Molecular Biology, Biomedical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
- Early Stage Bioprocess Development, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG, Biberach an der Riss, Germany
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- Gene Center, Department of Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Institute of Physiological Chemistry, Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Department of Molecular Biology, Biomedical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
- Department of Clinical Genetics, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Biomedical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
- Epigenetics Institute and Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Core Facility Bioimaging and Walter-Brendel-Centre of Experimental Medicine, Biomedical Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
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- Gene Center, Department of Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Structural Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Biomedical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
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- Department of Physiological Chemistry, Biomedical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
- BioPhysics Core Facility, Biomedical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
- ViraTherapeutics GmbH, Rum, Austria
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- Gene Center, Department of Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany.
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- Institute of Physiological Chemistry, Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
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Khatua P, Tang PK, Moulick AG, Patel R, Manandhar A, Loverde SM. Sequence Dependence in Nucleosome Dynamics. J Phys Chem B 2024; 128:3090-3101. [PMID: 38530903 PMCID: PMC11181342 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c07363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/28/2024]
Abstract
The basic packaging unit of eukaryotic chromatin is the nucleosome that contains 145-147 base pair duplex DNA wrapped around an octameric histone protein. While the DNA sequence plays a crucial role in controlling the positioning of the nucleosome, the molecular details behind the interplay between DNA sequence and nucleosome dynamics remain relatively unexplored. This study analyzes this interplay in detail by performing all-atom molecular dynamics simulations of nucleosomes, comparing the human α-satellite palindromic (ASP) and the strong positioning "Widom-601" DNA sequence at time scales of 12 μs. The simulations are performed at salt concentrations 10-20 times higher than physiological salt concentrations to screen the electrostatic interactions and promote unwrapping. These microsecond-long simulations give insight into the molecular-level sequence-dependent events that dictate the pathway of DNA unwrapping. We find that the "ASP" sequence forms a loop around SHL ± 5 for three sets of simulations. Coincident with loop formation is a cooperative increase in contacts with the neighboring N-terminal H2B tail and C-terminal H2A tail and the release of neighboring counterions. We find that the Widom-601 sequence exhibits a strong breathing motion of the nucleic acid ends. Coincident with the breathing motion is the collapse of the full N-terminal H3 tail and formation of an α-helix that interacts with the H3 histone core. We postulate that the dynamics of these histone tails and their modification with post-translational modifications (PTMs) may play a key role in governing this dynamics.
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- Prabir Khatua
- Department of Chemistry, College of Staten Island, The City University of New York, 2800 Victory Boulevard, Staten Island, New York, 10314, United States
- Present Address: Department of Chemistry, GITAM School of Science, GITAM (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, 562163, INDIA
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Staten Island, The City University of New York, 2800 Victory Boulevard, Staten Island, New York, 10314, United States
- Ph.D. Program in Biochemistry, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, NY, 10016, United States
- Present Address: Flatiron Institute, New York, NY, 10010, United States
- These authors contributed equally: Phu K. Tang, Abhik Ghosh Moulick, and Rutika Patel
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Staten Island, The City University of New York, 2800 Victory Boulevard, Staten Island, New York, 10314, United States
- These authors contributed equally: Phu K. Tang, Abhik Ghosh Moulick, and Rutika Patel
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Staten Island, The City University of New York, 2800 Victory Boulevard, Staten Island, New York, 10314, United States
- Ph.D. Program in Biochemistry, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, NY, 10016, United States
- These authors contributed equally: Phu K. Tang, Abhik Ghosh Moulick, and Rutika Patel
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Staten Island, The City University of New York, 2800 Victory Boulevard, Staten Island, New York, 10314, United States
- Ph.D. Program in Biochemistry, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, NY, 10016, United States
- Present Address: Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Boston, MA, 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Staten Island, The City University of New York, 2800 Victory Boulevard, Staten Island, New York, 10314, United States
- Ph.D. Program in Biochemistry, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, NY, 10016, United States
- Ph.D. Program in Chemistry, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, NY, 10016, United States
- Ph.D. Program in Physics, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, NY, 10016, United States
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Eustermann S, Patel AB, Hopfner KP, He Y, Korber P. Energy-driven genome regulation by ATP-dependent chromatin remodellers. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 2024; 25:309-332. [PMID: 38081975 DOI: 10.1038/s41580-023-00683-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/24/2023] [Indexed: 03/28/2024]
Abstract
The packaging of DNA into chromatin in eukaryotes regulates gene transcription, DNA replication and DNA repair. ATP-dependent chromatin remodelling enzymes (re)arrange nucleosomes at the first level of chromatin organization. Their Snf2-type motor ATPases alter histone-DNA interactions through a common DNA translocation mechanism. Whether remodeller activities mainly catalyse nucleosome dynamics or accurately co-determine nucleosome organization remained unclear. In this Review, we discuss the emerging mechanisms of chromatin remodelling: dynamic remodeller architectures and their interactions, the inner workings of the ATPase cycle, allosteric regulation and pathological dysregulation. Recent mechanistic insights argue for a decisive role of remodellers in the energy-driven self-organization of chromatin, which enables both stability and plasticity of genome regulation - for example, during development and stress. Different remodellers, such as members of the SWI/SNF, ISWI, CHD and INO80 families, process (epi)genetic information through specific mechanisms into distinct functional outputs. Combinatorial assembly of remodellers and their interplay with histone modifications, histone variants, DNA sequence or DNA-bound transcription factors regulate nucleosome mobilization or eviction or histone exchange. Such input-output relationships determine specific nucleosome positions and compositions with distinct DNA accessibilities and mediate differential genome regulation. Finally, remodeller genes are often mutated in diseases characterized by genome dysregulation, notably in cancer, and we discuss their physiological relevance.
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- Sebastian Eustermann
- Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Chemistry of Life Processes Institute, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Gene Center and Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Chemistry of Life Processes Institute, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
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- Biomedical Center (BMC), Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, LMU Munich, Martinsried, Germany.
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Kim JM, Carcamo CC, Jazani S, Xie Z, Feng XA, Yamadi M, Poyton M, Holland KL, Grimm JB, Lavis LD, Ha T, Wu C. Dynamic 1D search and processive nucleosome translocations by RSC and ISW2 chromatin remodelers. eLife 2024; 12:RP91433. [PMID: 38497611 PMCID: PMC10948146 DOI: 10.7554/elife.91433] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/19/2024] Open
Abstract
Eukaryotic gene expression is linked to chromatin structure and nucleosome positioning by ATP-dependent chromatin remodelers that establish and maintain nucleosome-depleted regions (NDRs) near transcription start sites. Conserved yeast RSC and ISW2 remodelers exert antagonistic effects on nucleosomes flanking NDRs, but the temporal dynamics of remodeler search, engagement, and directional nucleosome mobilization for promoter accessibility are unknown. Using optical tweezers and two-color single-particle imaging, we investigated the Brownian diffusion of RSC and ISW2 on free DNA and sparse nucleosome arrays. RSC and ISW2 rapidly scan DNA by one-dimensional hopping and sliding, respectively, with dynamic collisions between remodelers followed by recoil or apparent co-diffusion. Static nucleosomes block remodeler diffusion resulting in remodeler recoil or sequestration. Remarkably, both RSC and ISW2 use ATP hydrolysis to translocate mono-nucleosomes processively at ~30 bp/s on extended linear DNA under tension. Processivity and opposing push-pull directionalities of nucleosome translocation shown by RSC and ISW2 shape the distinctive landscape of promoter chromatin.
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- Jee Min Kim
- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimoreUnited States
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- Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of MedicineBaltimoreUnited States
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- Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of MedicineBaltimoreUnited States
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- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimoreUnited States
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- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimoreUnited States
- Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of MedicineBaltimoreUnited States
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- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimoreUnited States
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- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimoreUnited States
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- Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical InstituteAshburnUnited States
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- Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical InstituteAshburnUnited States
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- Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical InstituteAshburnUnited States
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- Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of MedicineBaltimoreUnited States
- Howard Hughes Medical InstituteBostonUnited States
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- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimoreUnited States
- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins School of MedicineBaltimoreUnited States
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Chio US, Palovcak E, Smith AAA, Autzen H, Muñoz EN, Yu Z, Wang F, Agard DA, Armache JP, Narlikar GJ, Cheng Y. Functionalized graphene-oxide grids enable high-resolution cryo-EM structures of the SNF2h-nucleosome complex without crosslinking. Nat Commun 2024; 15:2225. [PMID: 38472177 PMCID: PMC10933330 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-46178-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2023] [Accepted: 02/15/2024] [Indexed: 03/14/2024] Open
Abstract
Single-particle cryo-EM is widely used to determine enzyme-nucleosome complex structures. However, cryo-EM sample preparation remains challenging and inconsistent due to complex denaturation at the air-water interface (AWI). Here, to address this issue, we develop graphene-oxide-coated EM grids functionalized with either single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) or thiol-poly(acrylic acid-co-styrene) (TAASTY) co-polymer. These grids protect complexes between the chromatin remodeler SNF2h and nucleosomes from the AWI and facilitate collection of high-quality micrographs of intact SNF2h-nucleosome complexes in the absence of crosslinking. The data yields maps ranging from 2.3 to 3 Å in resolution. 3D variability analysis reveals nucleotide-state linked conformational changes in SNF2h bound to a nucleosome. In addition, the analysis provides structural evidence for asymmetric coordination between two SNF2h protomers acting on the same nucleosome. We envision these grids will enable similar detailed structural analyses for other enzyme-nucleosome complexes and possibly other protein-nucleic acid complexes in general.
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- Un Seng Chio
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Biophysics Graduate Program, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Department of Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Linderstrom-Lang Centre for Protein Science, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, København, Denmark
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- Tetrad Graduate Program, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Bacic L, Gaullier G, Mohapatra J, Mao G, Brackmann K, Panfilov M, Liszczak G, Sabantsev A, Deindl S. Asymmetric nucleosome PARylation at DNA breaks mediates directional nucleosome sliding by ALC1. Nat Commun 2024; 15:1000. [PMID: 38307862 PMCID: PMC10837151 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-45237-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2023] [Accepted: 01/16/2024] [Indexed: 02/04/2024] Open
Abstract
The chromatin remodeler ALC1 is activated by DNA damage-induced poly(ADP-ribose) deposited by PARP1/PARP2 and their co-factor HPF1. ALC1 has emerged as a cancer drug target, but how it is recruited to ADP-ribosylated nucleosomes to affect their positioning near DNA breaks is unknown. Here we find that PARP1/HPF1 preferentially initiates ADP-ribosylation on the histone H2B tail closest to the DNA break. To dissect the consequences of such asymmetry, we generate nucleosomes with a defined ADP-ribosylated H2B tail on one side only. The cryo-electron microscopy structure of ALC1 bound to such an asymmetric nucleosome indicates preferential engagement on one side. Using single-molecule FRET, we demonstrate that this asymmetric recruitment gives rise to directed sliding away from the DNA linker closest to the ADP-ribosylation site. Our data suggest a mechanism by which ALC1 slides nucleosomes away from a DNA break to render it more accessible to repair factors.
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- Luka Bacic
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, 75124, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, 75124, Uppsala, Sweden
- Department of Chemistry - Ångström, Uppsala University, 75120, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Biochemistry, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, TX, 75390, USA
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, 75124, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, 75124, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, 75124, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Biochemistry, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, TX, 75390, USA
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, 75124, Uppsala, Sweden.
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, 75124, Uppsala, Sweden.
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Kim JM, Carcamo CC, Jazani S, Xie Z, Feng XA, Yamadi M, Poyton M, Holland KL, Grimm JB, Lavis LD, Ha T, Wu C. Dynamic 1D Search and Processive Nucleosome Translocations by RSC and ISW2 Chromatin Remodelers. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2023.06.13.544671. [PMID: 38293098 PMCID: PMC10827135 DOI: 10.1101/2023.06.13.544671] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2024]
Abstract
Eukaryotic gene expression is linked to chromatin structure and nucleosome positioning by ATP-dependent chromatin remodelers that establish and maintain nucleosome-depleted regions (NDRs) near transcription start-sites. Conserved yeast RSC and ISW2 remodelers exert antagonistic effects on nucleosomes flanking NDRs, but the temporal dynamics of remodeler search, engagement and directional nucleosome mobilization for promoter accessibility are unknown. Using optical tweezers and 2-color single-particle imaging, we investigated the Brownian diffusion of RSC and ISW2 on free DNA and sparse nucleosome arrays. RSC and ISW2 rapidly scan DNA by one-dimensional hopping and sliding respectively, with dynamic collisions between remodelers followed by recoil or apparent co-diffusion. Static nucleosomes block remodeler diffusion resulting in remodeler recoil or sequestration. Remarkably, both RSC and ISW2 use ATP hydrolysis to translocate mono-nucleosomes processively at ~30 bp/sec on extended linear DNA under tension. Processivity and opposing push-pull directionalities of nucleosome translocation shown by RSC and ISW2 shape the distinctive landscape of promoter chromatin.
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- Jee Min Kim
- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
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- Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
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- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
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- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
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- Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, United States
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- Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, United States
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- Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, United States
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- Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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Vizjak P, Kamp D, Hepp N, Scacchetti A, Pisfil MG, Bartho J, Halic M, Becker PB, Smolle M, Stigler J, Mueller-Planitz F. ISWI catalyzes nucleosome sliding in condensed nucleosome arrays. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.12.04.569516. [PMID: 38106060 PMCID: PMC10723341 DOI: 10.1101/2023.12.04.569516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2023]
Abstract
How chromatin enzymes work in condensed chromatin and how they maintain diffusional mobility inside remains unexplored. We investigated these challenges using the Drosophila ISWI remodeling ATPase, which slides nucleosomes along DNA. Folding of chromatin fibers did not affect sliding in vitro. Catalytic rates were also comparable in- and outside of chromatin condensates. ISWI cross-links and thereby stiffens condensates, except when ATP hydrolysis is possible. Active hydrolysis is also required for ISWI's mobility in condensates. Energy from ATP hydrolysis therefore fuels ISWI's diffusion through chromatin and prevents ISWI from cross-linking chromatin. Molecular dynamics simulations of a 'monkey-bar' model in which ISWI grabs onto neighboring nucleosomes, then withdraws from one before rebinding another in an ATP hydrolysis-dependent manner qualitatively agree with our data. We speculate that 'monkey-bar' mechanisms could be shared with other chromatin factors and that changes in chromatin dynamics caused by mutations in remodelers could contribute to pathologies.
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- Petra Vizjak
- Institute of Physiological Chemistry, Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Fetscherstraße 74, 01307 Dresden, Germany
- Department of Molecular Biology, Biomedical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Großhadernerstr. 9, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
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- Gene Center, Department of Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Feodor-Lynen-Str 25, 81377 München, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Biomedical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Großhadernerstr. 9, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
- Current address: Department of Clinical Genetics, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Blegdamsvej 9, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Biomedical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Großhadernerstr. 9, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
- Current address: Epigenetics Institute & Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia (PA), USA
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- Core Facility Bioimaging and Walter-Brendel-Centre of Experimental Medicine, Biomedical Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Großhaderner Straße 9, 82152, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
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- Gene Center, Department of Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Feodor-Lynen-Str 25, 81377 München, Germany
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- Department of Structural Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 263 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, TN, 38105, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Biomedical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Großhadernerstr. 9, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
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- Department of Physiological Chemistry, Biomedical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Großhadernerstr. 9, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
- BioPhysics Core Facility, Biomedical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Großhadernerstr. 9, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
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- Gene Center, Department of Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Feodor-Lynen-Str 25, 81377 München, Germany
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- Institute of Physiological Chemistry, Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Fetscherstraße 74, 01307 Dresden, Germany
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Basu S, Shukron O, Hall D, Parutto P, Ponjavic A, Shah D, Boucher W, Lando D, Zhang W, Reynolds N, Sober LH, Jartseva A, Ragheb R, Ma X, Cramard J, Floyd R, Balmer J, Drury TA, Carr AR, Needham LM, Aubert A, Communie G, Gor K, Steindel M, Morey L, Blanco E, Bartke T, Di Croce L, Berger I, Schaffitzel C, Lee SF, Stevens TJ, Klenerman D, Hendrich BD, Holcman D, Laue ED. Live-cell three-dimensional single-molecule tracking reveals modulation of enhancer dynamics by NuRD. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2023; 30:1628-1639. [PMID: 37770717 PMCID: PMC10643137 DOI: 10.1038/s41594-023-01095-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2021] [Accepted: 08/14/2023] [Indexed: 09/30/2023]
Abstract
To understand how the nucleosome remodeling and deacetylase (NuRD) complex regulates enhancers and enhancer-promoter interactions, we have developed an approach to segment and extract key biophysical parameters from live-cell three-dimensional single-molecule trajectories. Unexpectedly, this has revealed that NuRD binds to chromatin for minutes, decompacts chromatin structure and increases enhancer dynamics. We also uncovered a rare fast-diffusing state of enhancers and found that NuRD restricts the time spent in this state. Hi-C and Cut&Run experiments revealed that NuRD modulates enhancer-promoter interactions in active chromatin, allowing them to contact each other over longer distances. Furthermore, NuRD leads to a marked redistribution of CTCF and, in particular, cohesin. We propose that NuRD promotes a decondensed chromatin environment, where enhancers and promoters can contact each other over longer distances, and where the resetting of enhancer-promoter interactions brought about by the fast decondensed chromatin motions is reduced, leading to more stable, long-lived enhancer-promoter relationships.
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- S Basu
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Applied Mathematics and Computational Biology, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Applied Mathematics and Computational Biology, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
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- Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
- School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge, UK
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- Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge, UK
- Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- The European Molecular Biology Laboratory EMBL, Grenoble, France
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- The European Molecular Biology Laboratory EMBL, Grenoble, France
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- Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- The European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain
- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Human Genetics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Biomedical Research Building, Miami, FL, USA
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- Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain
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- Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Institute of Functional Epigenetics, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain
- Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain
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- School of Biochemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- School of Biochemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
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- Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
- Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge, UK.
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- Department of Applied Mathematics and Computational Biology, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France.
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
- Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge, UK.
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Abdulhay NJ, Hsieh LJ, McNally CP, Ostrowski MS, Moore CM, Ketavarapu M, Kasinathan S, Nanda AS, Wu K, Chio US, Zhou Z, Goodarzi H, Narlikar GJ, Ramani V. Nucleosome density shapes kilobase-scale regulation by a mammalian chromatin remodeler. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2023; 30:1571-1581. [PMID: 37696956 PMCID: PMC10584690 DOI: 10.1038/s41594-023-01093-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2023] [Accepted: 08/09/2023] [Indexed: 09/13/2023]
Abstract
Nearly all essential nuclear processes act on DNA packaged into arrays of nucleosomes. However, our understanding of how these processes (for example, DNA replication, RNA transcription, chromatin extrusion and nucleosome remodeling) occur on individual chromatin arrays remains unresolved. Here, to address this deficit, we present SAMOSA-ChAAT: a massively multiplex single-molecule footprinting approach to map the primary structure of individual, reconstituted chromatin templates subject to virtually any chromatin-associated reaction. We apply this method to distinguish between competing models for chromatin remodeling by the essential imitation switch (ISWI) ATPase SNF2h: nucleosome-density-dependent spacing versus fixed-linker-length nucleosome clamping. First, we perform in vivo single-molecule nucleosome footprinting in murine embryonic stem cells, to discover that ISWI-catalyzed nucleosome spacing correlates with the underlying nucleosome density of specific epigenomic domains. To establish causality, we apply SAMOSA-ChAAT to quantify the activities of ISWI ATPase SNF2h and its parent complex ACF on reconstituted nucleosomal arrays of varying nucleosome density, at single-molecule resolution. We demonstrate that ISWI remodelers operate as density-dependent, length-sensing nucleosome sliders, whose ability to program DNA accessibility is dictated by single-molecule nucleosome density. We propose that the long-observed, context-specific regulatory effects of ISWI complexes can be explained in part by the sensing of nucleosome density within epigenomic domains. More generally, our approach promises molecule-precise views of the essential processes that shape nuclear physiology.
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- Nour J Abdulhay
- Gladstone Institute for Data Science and Biotechnology, J. David Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Gladstone Institute for Data Science and Biotechnology, J. David Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Gladstone Institute for Data Science and Biotechnology, J. David Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Gladstone Institute for Data Science and Biotechnology, J. David Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Tetrad Graduate Program, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Lucille Packard Children's Hospital, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA
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- Gladstone Institute for Data Science and Biotechnology, J. David Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Gladstone Institute for Data Science and Biotechnology, J. David Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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- Gladstone Institute for Data Science and Biotechnology, J. David Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA, USA.
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
- Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Wu H, Muñoz EN, Hsieh LJ, Chio US, Gourdet MA, Narlikar GJ, Cheng Y. Reorientation of INO80 on hexasomes reveals basis for mechanistic versatility. Science 2023; 381:319-324. [PMID: 37384669 PMCID: PMC10480058 DOI: 10.1126/science.adf4197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2022] [Accepted: 06/17/2023] [Indexed: 07/01/2023]
Abstract
Unlike other chromatin remodelers, INO80 preferentially mobilizes hexasomes, which can form during transcription. Why INO80 prefers hexasomes over nucleosomes remains unclear. Here, we report structures of Saccharomyces cerevisiae INO80 bound to a hexasome or a nucleosome. INO80 binds the two substrates in substantially different orientations. On a hexasome, INO80 places its ATPase subunit, Ino80, at superhelical location -2 (SHL -2), in contrast to SHL -6 and SHL -7, as previously seen on nucleosomes. Our results suggest that INO80 action on hexasomes resembles action by other remodelers on nucleosomes such that Ino80 is maximally active near SHL -2. The SHL -2 position also plays a critical role for nucleosome remodeling by INO80. Overall, the mechanistic adaptations used by INO80 for preferential hexasome sliding imply that subnucleosomal particles play considerable regulatory roles.
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- Hao Wu
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
- Tetrad Graduate Program, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
- Tetrad Graduate Program, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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Chio US, Palovcak E, Autzen AAA, Autzen HE, Muñoz EN, Yu Z, Wang F, Agard DA, Armache JP, Narlikar GJ, Cheng Y. Functionalized graphene-oxide grids enable high-resolution cryo-EM structures of the SNF2h-nucleosome complex without crosslinking. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.06.20.545796. [PMID: 37546986 PMCID: PMC10402172 DOI: 10.1101/2023.06.20.545796] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/08/2023]
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Single-particle cryo-EM is widely used to determine enzyme-nucleosome complex structures. However, cryo-EM sample preparation remains challenging and inconsistent due to complex denaturation at the air-water interface (AWI). To address this issue, we developed graphene-oxide-coated EM grids functionalized with either single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) or thiol-poly(acrylic acid-co-styrene) (TAASTY) co-polymer. These grids protect complexes between the chromatin remodeler SNF2h and nucleosomes from the AWI and facilitated collection of high-quality micrographs of intact SNF2h-nucleosome complexes in the absence of crosslinking. The data yields maps ranging from 2.3 to 3 Å in resolution. 3D variability analysis reveals nucleotide-state linked conformational changes in SNF2h bound to a nucleosome. In addition, the analysis provides structural evidence for asymmetric coordination between two SNF2h protomers acting on the same nucleosome. We envision these grids will enable similar detailed structural analyses for other enzyme-nucleosome complexes and possibly other protein-nucleic acid complexes in general.
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- Un Seng Chio
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Biophysics Graduate Program, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Current: Department of Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Linderstrom-Lang Centre for Protein Science, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Tetrad Graduate Program, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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Bomber ML, Wang J, Liu Q, Barnett KR, Layden HM, Hodges E, Stengel KR, Hiebert SW. Human SMARCA5 is continuously required to maintain nucleosome spacing. Mol Cell 2023; 83:507-522.e6. [PMID: 36630954 PMCID: PMC9974918 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2022.12.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2022] [Revised: 12/07/2022] [Accepted: 12/16/2022] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Genetic models suggested that SMARCA5 was required for DNA-templated events including transcription, DNA replication, and DNA repair. We engineered a degron tag into the endogenous alleles of SMARCA5, a catalytic component of the imitation switch complexes in three different human cell lines to define the effects of rapid degradation of this key regulator. Degradation of SMARCA5 was associated with a rapid increase in global nucleosome repeat length, which may allow greater chromatin compaction. However, there were few changes in nascent transcription within the first 6 h of degradation. Nevertheless, we demonstrated a requirement for SMARCA5 to control nucleosome repeat length at G1/S and during the S phase. SMARCA5 co-localized with CTCF and H2A.Z, and we found a rapid loss of CTCF DNA binding and disruption of nucleosomal phasing around CTCF binding sites. This spatiotemporal analysis indicates that SMARCA5 is continuously required for maintaining nucleosomal spacing.
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- Monica L Bomber
- Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37203, USA; Center for Quantitative Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37203, USA; Center for Quantitative Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
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- Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA; Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA.
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Contribution of smFRET to Chromatin Research. BIOPHYSICA 2023. [DOI: 10.3390/biophysica3010007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/11/2023]
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Chromatins are structural components of chromosomes and consist of DNA and histone proteins. The structure, dynamics, and function of chromatins are important in regulating genetic processes. Several different experimental and theoretical tools have been employed to understand chromatins better. In this review, we will focus on the literatures engrossed in understanding of chromatins using single-molecule Förster resonance energy transfer (smFRET). smFRET is a single-molecule fluorescence microscopic technique that can furnish information regarding the distance between two points in space. This has been utilized to efficiently unveil the structural details of chromatins.
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Jiang Z, Qi Y, Kamat K, Zhang B. Phase Separation and Correlated Motions in Motorized Genome. J Phys Chem B 2022; 126:5619-5628. [PMID: 35858189 PMCID: PMC9899348 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c03238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The human genome is arranged in the cell nucleus nonrandomly, and phase separation has been proposed as an important driving force for genome organization. However, the cell nucleus is an active system, and the contribution of nonequilibrium activities to phase separation and genome structure and dynamics remains to be explored. We simulated the genome using an energy function parametrized with chromosome conformation capture (Hi-C) data with the presence of active, nondirectional forces that break the detailed balance. We found that active forces that may arise from transcription and chromatin remodeling can dramatically impact the spatial localization of heterochromatin. When applied to euchromatin, active forces can drive heterochromatin to the nuclear envelope and compete with passive interactions among heterochromatin that tend to pull them in opposite directions. Furthermore, active forces induce long-range spatial correlations among genomic loci beyond single chromosome territories. We further showed that the impact of active forces could be understood from the effective temperature defined as the fluctuation-dissipation ratio. Our study suggests that nonequilibrium activities can significantly impact genome structure and dynamics, producing unexpected collective phenomena.
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- Zhongling Jiang
- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307, United States
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Johnson SL, Narlikar GJ. ATP hydrolysis coordinates the activities of two motors in a dimeric chromatin remodeling enzyme. J Mol Biol 2022; 434:167653. [PMID: 35659534 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2022.167653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2022] [Revised: 05/12/2022] [Accepted: 05/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
Abstract
ATP-dependent chromatin remodelers are essential enzymes that restructure eukaryotic genomes to enable all DNA-based processes. The diversity and complexity of these processes are matched by the complexity of the enzymes that carry them out, making remodelers a challenging class of molecular motors to study by conventional methods. Here we use a single molecule biophysical assay to overcome some of these challenges, enabling a detailed mechanistic dissection of a paradigmatic remodeler reaction, that of sliding a nucleosome towards the longer DNA linker. We focus on how two motors of a dimeric remodeler coordinate to accomplish such directional sliding. We find that ATP hydrolysis by both motors promotes coordination, suggesting a role for ATP in resolving the competition for directional commitment. Furthermore, we show an artificially constitutive dimer is no more or less coordinated, but is more processive, suggesting a cell could modulate a remodeler's oligomeric state to modulate local chromatin dynamics.
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- Stephanie L Johnson
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. https://twitter.com/StephL_Johnson
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Poyton MF, Feng XA, Ranjan A, Lei Q, Wang F, Zarb JS, Louder RK, Park G, Jo MH, Ye J, Liu S, Ha T, Wu C. Coordinated DNA and histone dynamics drive accurate histone H2A.Z exchange. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2022; 8:eabj5509. [PMID: 35263135 PMCID: PMC8906749 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abj5509] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2021] [Accepted: 01/14/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Nucleosomal histone H2A is exchanged for its variant H2A.Z by the SWR1 chromatin remodeler, but the mechanism and timing of histone exchange remain unclear. Here, we quantify DNA and histone dynamics during histone exchange in real time using a three-color single-molecule FRET assay. We show that SWR1 operates with timed precision to unwrap DNA with large displacement from one face of the nucleosome, remove H2A-H2B from the same face, and rewrap DNA, all within 2.3 s. This productive DNA unwrapping requires full SWR1 activation and differs from unproductive, smaller-scale DNA unwrapping caused by SWR1 binding alone. On an asymmetrically positioned nucleosome, SWR1 intrinsically senses long-linker DNA to preferentially exchange H2A.Z on the distal face as observed in vivo. The displaced H2A-H2B dimer remains briefly associated with the SWR1-nucleosome complex and is dissociated by histone chaperones. These findings reveal how SWR1 coordinates DNA unwrapping with histone dynamics to rapidly and accurately place H2A.Z at physiological sites on chromatin.
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- Matthew F. Poyton
- Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Nodelman IM, Das S, Faustino AM, Fried SD, Bowman GD, Armache JP. Nucleosome recognition and DNA distortion by the Chd1 remodeler in a nucleotide-free state. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2022; 29:121-129. [PMID: 35173352 DOI: 10.1038/s41594-021-00719-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2021] [Accepted: 12/23/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Chromatin remodelers are ATP-dependent enzymes that reorganize nucleosomes within all eukaryotic genomes. Here we report a complex of the Chd1 remodeler bound to a nucleosome in a nucleotide-free state, determined by cryo-EM to 2.3 Å resolution. The remodeler stimulates the nucleosome to absorb an additional nucleotide on each strand at two different locations: on the tracking strand within the ATPase binding site and on the guide strand one helical turn from the ATPase motor. Remarkably, the additional nucleotide on the tracking strand is associated with a local transformation toward an A-form geometry, explaining how sequential ratcheting of each DNA strand occurs. The structure also reveals a histone-binding motif, ChEx, which can block opposing remodelers on the nucleosome and may allow Chd1 to participate in histone reorganization during transcription.
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- Ilana M Nodelman
- Thomas C. Jenkins Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
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- Thomas C. Jenkins Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.,Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Thomas C. Jenkins Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.
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Bacic L, Gaullier G, Sabantsev A, Lehmann LC, Brackmann K, Dimakou D, Halic M, Hewitt G, Boulton SJ, Deindl S. Structure and dynamics of the chromatin remodeler ALC1 bound to a PARylated nucleosome. eLife 2021; 10:e71420. [PMID: 34486521 PMCID: PMC8463071 DOI: 10.7554/elife.71420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2021] [Accepted: 09/05/2021] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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The chromatin remodeler ALC1 is recruited to and activated by DNA damage-induced poly(ADP-ribose) (PAR) chains deposited by PARP1/PARP2/HPF1 upon detection of DNA lesions. ALC1 has emerged as a candidate drug target for cancer therapy as its loss confers synthetic lethality in homologous recombination-deficient cells. However, structure-based drug design and molecular analysis of ALC1 have been hindered by the requirement for PARylation and the highly heterogeneous nature of this post-translational modification. Here, we reconstituted an ALC1 and PARylated nucleosome complex modified in vitro using PARP2 and HPF1. This complex was amenable to cryo-EM structure determination without cross-linking, which enabled visualization of several intermediate states of ALC1 from the recognition of the PARylated nucleosome to the tight binding and activation of the remodeler. Functional biochemical assays with PARylated nucleosomes highlight the importance of nucleosomal epitopes for productive remodeling and suggest that ALC1 preferentially slides nucleosomes away from DNA breaks.
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- Luka Bacic
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala UniversityUppsalaSweden
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala UniversityUppsalaSweden
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala UniversityUppsalaSweden
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala UniversityUppsalaSweden
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala UniversityUppsalaSweden
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala UniversityUppsalaSweden
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- Department of Structural Biology, St Jude Children's Research HospitalMemphisUnited States
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala UniversityUppsalaSweden
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Heimdallarchaea encodes profilin with eukaryotic-like actin regulation and polyproline binding. Commun Biol 2021; 4:1024. [PMID: 34471213 PMCID: PMC8410842 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-021-02543-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2020] [Accepted: 08/11/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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It is now widely accepted that the first eukaryotic cell emerged from a merger of an archaeal host cell and an alphaproteobacterium. However, the exact sequence of events and the nature of the cellular biology of both partner cells is still contentious. Recently the structures of profilins from some members of the newly discovered Asgard superphylum were determined. In addition, it was found that these profilins inhibit eukaryotic rabbit actin polymerization and that this reaction is regulated by phospholipids. However, the interaction with polyproline repeats which are known to be crucial for the regulation of profilin:actin polymerization was found to be absent for these profilins and was thus suggested to have evolved later in the eukaryotic lineage. Here, we show that Heimdallarchaeota LC3, a candidate phylum within the Asgard superphylum, encodes a putative profilin (heimProfilin) that interacts with PIP2 and its binding is regulated by polyproline motifs, suggesting an origin predating the rise of the eukaryotes. More precisely, we determined the 3D-structure of Heimdallarchaeota LC3 profilin and show that this profilin is able to: i) inhibit eukaryotic actin polymerization in vitro; ii) bind to phospholipids; iii) bind to polyproline repeats from enabled/vasodilator‐stimulated phosphoprotein; iv) inhibit actin from Heimdallarchaeota from polymerizing into filaments. Our results therefore provide hints of the existence of a complex cytoskeleton already in last eukaryotic common ancestor. Chi and coworkers characterise proteins of Heimdallarchaeeota LC3, a member of the Asgard super phylum, and specifically investigate heim-Profilin and heim-Actin, and their interactions with polyproline and phospholipids. They also determine the 3D-structure of Heimdallarchaeota LC3 profilin. Their results suggest that a complex cytoskeleton existed in the last eukaryotic common ancestor indicating an origin predating the rise of the eukaryotes.
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Barnes T, Korber P. The Active Mechanism of Nucleosome Depletion by Poly(dA:dT) Tracts In Vivo. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:ijms22158233. [PMID: 34360997 PMCID: PMC8347975 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22158233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2021] [Revised: 07/27/2021] [Accepted: 07/29/2021] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Poly(dA:dT) tracts cause nucleosome depletion in many species, e.g., at promoters and replication origins. Their intrinsic biophysical sequence properties make them stiff and unfavorable for nucleosome assembly, as probed by in vitro nucleosome reconstitution. The mere correlation between nucleosome depletion over poly(dA:dT) tracts in in vitro reconstituted and in in vivo chromatin inspired an intrinsic nucleosome exclusion mechanism in vivo that is based only on DNA and histone properties. However, we compile here published and new evidence that this correlation does not reflect mechanistic causation. (1) Nucleosome depletion over poly(dA:dT) in vivo is not universal, e.g., very weak in S. pombe. (2) The energy penalty for incorporating poly(dA:dT) tracts into nucleosomes is modest (<10%) relative to ATP hydrolysis energy abundantly invested by chromatin remodelers. (3) Nucleosome depletion over poly(dA:dT) is much stronger in vivo than in vitro if monitored without MNase and (4) actively maintained in vivo. (5) S. cerevisiae promoters evolved a strand-biased poly(dA) versus poly(dT) distribution. (6) Nucleosome depletion over poly(dA) is directional in vivo. (7) The ATP dependent chromatin remodeler RSC preferentially and directionally displaces nucleosomes towards 5′ of poly(dA). Especially distribution strand bias and displacement directionality would not be expected for an intrinsic mechanism. Together, this argues for an in vivo mechanism where active and species-specific read out of intrinsic sequence properties, e.g., by remodelers, shapes nucleosome organization.
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Kim JM, Visanpattanasin P, Jou V, Liu S, Tang X, Zheng Q, Li KY, Snedeker J, Lavis LD, Lionnet T, Wu C. Single-molecule imaging of chromatin remodelers reveals role of ATPase in promoting fast kinetics of target search and dissociation from chromatin. eLife 2021; 10:e69387. [PMID: 34313223 PMCID: PMC8352589 DOI: 10.7554/elife.69387] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2021] [Accepted: 07/26/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Conserved ATP-dependent chromatin remodelers establish and maintain genome-wide chromatin architectures of regulatory DNA during cellular lifespan, but the temporal interactions between remodelers and chromatin targets have been obscure. We performed live-cell single-molecule tracking for RSC, SWI/SNF, CHD1, ISW1, ISW2, and INO80 remodeling complexes in budding yeast and detected hyperkinetic behaviors for chromatin-bound molecules that frequently transition to the free state for all complexes. Chromatin-bound remodelers display notably higher diffusion than nucleosomal histones, and strikingly fast dissociation kinetics with 4-7 s mean residence times. These enhanced dynamics require ATP binding or hydrolysis by the catalytic ATPase, uncovering an additional function to its established role in nucleosome remodeling. Kinetic simulations show that multiple remodelers can repeatedly occupy the same promoter region on a timescale of minutes, implicating an unending 'tug-of-war' that controls a temporally shifting window of accessibility for the transcription initiation machinery.
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- Jee Min Kim
- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimoreUnited States
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- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimoreUnited States
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- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimoreUnited States
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- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimoreUnited States
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- Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical InstituteAshburnUnited States
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- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimoreUnited States
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- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimoreUnited States
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- Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical InstituteAshburnUnited States
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- Institute of Systems Genetics, Langone Medical Center, New York UniversityNew YorkUnited States
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- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimoreUnited States
- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins School of MedicineBaltimoreUnited States
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Autoinhibitory elements of the Chd1 remodeler block initiation of twist defects by destabilizing the ATPase motor on the nucleosome. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2021; 118:2014498118. [PMID: 33468676 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2014498118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Chromatin remodelers are ATP (adenosine triphosphate)-powered motors that reposition nucleosomes throughout eukaryotic chromosomes. Remodelers possess autoinhibitory elements that control the direction of nucleosome sliding, but underlying mechanisms of inhibition have been unclear. Here, we show that autoinhibitory elements of the yeast Chd1 remodeler block nucleosome sliding by preventing initiation of twist defects. We show that two autoinhibitory elements-the chromodomains and bridge-reinforce each other to block sliding when the DNA-binding domain is not bound to entry-side DNA. Our data support a model where the chromodomains and bridge target nucleotide-free and ADP-bound states of the ATPase motor, favoring a partially disengaged state of the ATPase motor on the nucleosome. By bypassing distortions of nucleosomal DNA prior to ATP binding, we propose that autoinhibitory elements uncouple the ATP binding/hydrolysis cycle from DNA translocation around the histone core.
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Clapier CR. Sophisticated Conversations between Chromatin and Chromatin Remodelers, and Dissonances in Cancer. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:5578. [PMID: 34070411 PMCID: PMC8197500 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22115578] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2021] [Revised: 05/18/2021] [Accepted: 05/18/2021] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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The establishment and maintenance of genome packaging into chromatin contribute to define specific cellular identity and function. Dynamic regulation of chromatin organization and nucleosome positioning are critical to all DNA transactions-in particular, the regulation of gene expression-and involve the cooperative action of sequence-specific DNA-binding factors, histone modifying enzymes, and remodelers. Remodelers are molecular machines that generate various chromatin landscapes, adjust nucleosome positioning, and alter DNA accessibility by using ATP binding and hydrolysis to perform DNA translocation, which is highly regulated through sophisticated structural and functional conversations with nucleosomes. In this review, I first present the functional and structural diversity of remodelers, while emphasizing the basic mechanism of DNA translocation, the common regulatory aspects, and the hand-in-hand progressive increase in complexity of the regulatory conversations between remodelers and nucleosomes that accompanies the increase in challenges of remodeling processes. Next, I examine how, through nucleosome positioning, remodelers guide the regulation of gene expression. Finally, I explore various aspects of how alterations/mutations in remodelers introduce dissonance into the conversations between remodelers and nucleosomes, modify chromatin organization, and contribute to oncogenesis.
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- Cedric R Clapier
- Department of Oncological Sciences & Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah School of Medicine, 2000 Circle of Hope, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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Feng XA, Poyton MF, Ha T. Multicolor single-molecule FRET for DNA and RNA processes. Curr Opin Struct Biol 2021; 70:26-33. [PMID: 33894656 DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2021.03.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2021] [Accepted: 03/10/2021] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Single-molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer (smFRET) is a useful tool for observing the dynamics of protein-nucleic acid interactions. Although most smFRET measurements have used two fluorophores, multicolor smFRET measurements using more than two fluorophores offer more information about how protein-nucleic acid complexes dynamically move, assemble, and disassemble. Multicolor smFRET experiments include three or more fluorophores and at least one donor-acceptor pair. This review highlights how multicolor smFRET is being used to probe the dynamics of three different classes of biochemical processes-protein-DNA interactions, chromatin remodeling, and protein translation.
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- Xinyu A Feng
- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA; Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA; Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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Song Y, Hyeon C. Thermodynamic uncertainty relation to assess biological processes. J Chem Phys 2021; 154:130901. [PMID: 33832251 DOI: 10.1063/5.0043671] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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We review the trade-offs between speed, fluctuations, and thermodynamic cost involved with biological processes in nonequilibrium states and discuss how optimal these processes are in light of the universal bound set by the thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR). The values of the uncertainty product Q of TUR, which can be used as a measure of the precision of enzymatic processes realized for a given thermodynamic cost, are suboptimal when the substrate concentration is at the Michaelis constant, and some of the key biological processes are found to work around this condition. We illustrate the utility of Q in assessing how close the molecular motors and biomass producing machineries are to the TUR bound, and for the cases of biomass production (or biological copying processes), we discuss how their optimality quantified in terms of Q is balanced with the error rate in the information transfer process. We also touch upon the trade-offs in other error-minimizing processes in biology, such as gene regulation and chaperone-assisted protein folding. A spectrum of Q recapitulating the biological processes surveyed here provides glimpses into how biological systems are evolved to optimize and balance the conflicting functional requirements.
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- Yonghyun Song
- Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul 02455, South Korea
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- Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul 02455, South Korea
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Gamarra N, Narlikar GJ. Collaboration through chromatin: motors of transcription and chromatin structure. J Mol Biol 2021; 433:166876. [PMID: 33556407 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2021.166876] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2020] [Revised: 01/29/2021] [Accepted: 02/01/2021] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Packaging of the eukaryotic genome into chromatin places fundamental physical constraints on transcription. Clarifying how transcription operates within these constraints is essential to understand how eukaryotic gene expression programs are established and maintained. Here we review what is known about the mechanisms of transcription on chromatin templates. Current models indicate that transcription through chromatin is accomplished by the combination of an inherent nucleosome disrupting activity of RNA polymerase and the action of ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling motors. Collaboration between these two types of molecular motors is proposed to occur at all stages of transcription through diverse mechanisms. Further investigation of how these two motors combine their basic activities is essential to clarify the interdependent relationship between genome structure and transcription.
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- Nathan Gamarra
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States; TETRAD Graduate Program, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States.
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Jiang Z, Zhang B. On the role of transcription in positioning nucleosomes. PLoS Comput Biol 2021; 17:e1008556. [PMID: 33417594 PMCID: PMC7819601 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008556] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2020] [Revised: 01/21/2021] [Accepted: 11/23/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Nucleosome positioning is crucial for the genome’s function. Though the role of DNA sequence in positioning nucleosomes is well understood, a detailed mechanistic understanding on the impact of transcription remains lacking. Using numerical simulations, we investigated the dependence of nucleosome density profiles on transcription level across multiple species. We found that the low nucleosome affinity of yeast, but not mouse, promoters contributes to the formation of phased nucleosomes arrays for inactive genes. For the active genes, a heterogeneous distribution of +1 nucleosomes, caused by a tug-of-war between two types of remodeling enzymes, is essential for reproducing their density profiles. In particular, while positioning enzymes are known to remodel the +1 nucleosome and align it toward the transcription start site (TSS), spacer enzymes that use a pair of nucleosomes as their substrate can shift the nucleosome array away from the TSS. Competition between these enzymes results in two types of nucleosome density profiles with well- and ill-positioned +1 nucleosome. Finally, we showed that Pol II assisted histone exchange, if occurring at a fast speed, can abolish the impact of remodeling enzymes. By elucidating the role of individual factors, our study reconciles the seemingly conflicting results on the overall impact of transcription in positioning nucleosomes across species. Nucleosome positioning plays a key role in the genome’s function by regulating the accessibility of protein binding sites as well as higher-order chromatin organization. Though significant progress has been made towards studying the role of DNA sequence in positioning the nucleosomes, our understanding on the impact of transcription lags behind. Our study uses kinetic simulations to explore the role of DNA sequence specificity, transcription factor binding, enzyme remodeling, and Pol II elongation in positioning nucleosomes. It suggests that the differences in nucleosome density profiles observed at various transcription levels in yeast and mouse embryonic stem cells can be understood from a tug-of-war between two types of remodeling enzymes.
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- Zhongling Jiang
- Departments of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Departments of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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Sun L, Pierrakeas L, Li T, Luk E. Thermosensitive Nucleosome Editing Reveals the Role of DNA Sequence in Targeted Histone Variant Deposition. Cell Rep 2021; 30:257-268.e5. [PMID: 31914392 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.12.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2019] [Revised: 11/04/2019] [Accepted: 12/03/2019] [Indexed: 10/25/2022] Open
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In preparation for transcription, the chromatin remodeler SWR installs homotypic ZZ nucleosomes at promoters by replacing the two nucleosomal H2A with H2A.Z in a stepwise manner. Nucleosome-free regions (NFRs) help recruit SWR to promoters; this is thought to position SWR asymmetrically on one side of the +1 nucleosome. How SWR accesses the opposite side of +1 to generate a ZZ nucleosome remains unclear. Using biochemical assays that monitor the sub-nucleosomal position of nascent H2A.Z, we find that NFR-recruited SWR switches sides to insert H2A.Z into asymmetrically positioned nucleosomes; however, at decreasing temperatures, H2A.Z insertion becomes progressively biased for one side. We find that a 16-bp element containing G/C runs (>3 consecutive G or C nucleotides) is sufficient to promote H2A.Z insertion. Because H2A.Z-rich +1 nucleosomes in yeast have more G/C runs, we propose that nucleosome editing is a thermosensitive process that can be hard coded by the genome.
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- Lu Sun
- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA; Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA.
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As primary carriers of epigenetic information and gatekeepers of genomic DNA, nucleosomes are essential for proper growth and development of all eukaryotic cells. Although they are intrinsically dynamic, nucleosomes are actively reorganized by ATP-dependent chromatin remodelers. Chromatin remodelers contain helicase-like ATPase motor domains that can translocate along DNA, and a long-standing question in the field is how this activity is used to reposition or slide nucleosomes. In addition to ratcheting along DNA like their helicase ancestors, remodeler ATPases appear to dictate specific alternating geometries of the DNA duplex, providing an unexpected means for moving DNA past the histone core. Emerging evidence supports twist-based mechanisms for ATP-driven repositioning of nucleosomes along DNA. In this review, we discuss core experimental findings and ideas that have shaped the view of how nucleosome sliding may be achieved.
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- Ilana M Nodelman
- T.C. Jenkins Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA;
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- T.C. Jenkins Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA;
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Morgan A, LeGresley S, Fischer C. Remodeler Catalyzed Nucleosome Repositioning: Influence of Structure and Stability. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 22:ijms22010076. [PMID: 33374740 PMCID: PMC7793527 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22010076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2020] [Revised: 12/04/2020] [Accepted: 12/16/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The packaging of the eukaryotic genome into chromatin regulates the storage of genetic information, including the access of the cell’s DNA metabolism machinery. Indeed, since the processes of DNA replication, translation, and repair require access to the underlying DNA, several mechanisms, both active and passive, have evolved by which chromatin structure can be regulated and modified. One mechanism relies upon the function of chromatin remodeling enzymes which couple the free energy obtained from the binding and hydrolysis of ATP to the mechanical work of repositioning and rearranging nucleosomes. Here, we review recent work on the nucleosome mobilization activity of this essential family of molecular machines.
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Lehmann LC, Bacic L, Hewitt G, Brackmann K, Sabantsev A, Gaullier G, Pytharopoulou S, Degliesposti G, Okkenhaug H, Tan S, Costa A, Skehel JM, Boulton SJ, Deindl S. Mechanistic Insights into Regulation of the ALC1 Remodeler by the Nucleosome Acidic Patch. Cell Rep 2020; 33:108529. [PMID: 33357431 PMCID: PMC7116876 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.108529] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2020] [Revised: 09/08/2020] [Accepted: 11/24/2020] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Upon DNA damage, the ALC1/CHD1L nucleosome remodeling enzyme (remodeler) is activated by binding to poly(ADP-ribose). How activated ALC1 recognizes the nucleosome, as well as how this recognition is coupled to remodeling, is unknown. Here, we show that remodeling by ALC1 requires a wild-type acidic patch on the entry side of the nucleosome. The cryo-electron microscopy structure of a nucleosome-ALC1 linker complex reveals a regulatory linker segment that binds to the acidic patch. Mutations within this interface alter the dynamics of ALC1 recruitment to DNA damage and impede the ATPase and remodeling activities of ALC1. Full activation requires acidic patch-linker segment interactions that tether the remodeler to the nucleosome and couple ATP hydrolysis to nucleosome mobilization. Upon DNA damage, such a requirement may be used to modulate ALC1 activity via changes in the nucleosome acidic patches.
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- Laura C Lehmann
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, 75124 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, 75124 Uppsala, Sweden
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- The Francis Crick Institute, 1 Midland Road, London NW1 1AT, UK
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, 75124 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, 75124 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, 75124 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, 75124 Uppsala, Sweden
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- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK
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- Center for Eukaryotic Gene Regulation, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- Macromolecular Machines Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, 1 Midland Road, London NW1 1AT, UK
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- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK
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- The Francis Crick Institute, 1 Midland Road, London NW1 1AT, UK.
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, 75124 Uppsala, Sweden.
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Kirk J, Lee JY, Lee Y, Kang C, Shin S, Lee E, Song JJ, Hohng S. Yeast Chd1p Unwraps the Exit Side DNA upon ATP Binding to Facilitate the Nucleosome Translocation Occurring upon ATP Hydrolysis. Biochemistry 2020; 59:4481-4487. [PMID: 33174727 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.0c00747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Chromodomain-helicase-DNA-binding protein 1 (CHD1) remodels chromatin by translocating nucleosomes along DNA, but its mechanism remains poorly understood. We use single-molecule fluorescence experiments to clarify the mechanism by which yeast CHD1 (Chd1p) remodels nucleosomes. We find that binding of ATP to Chd1p induces transient unwrapping of the DNA on the exit side of the nucleosome, facilitating nucleosome translocation. ATP hydrolysis is required to induce nucleosome translocation. The unwrapped DNA after translocation is then rewrapped after the release of the hydrolyzed nucleotide and phosphate, revealing that each step of the ATP hydrolysis cycle is responsible for a distinct step of nucleosome remodeling. These results show that Chd1p remodels nucleosomes via a mechanism that is unique among the other ATP-dependent chromatin remodelers.
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- Jaewon Kirk
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Institute of Applied Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Institute of Applied Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Institute of Applied Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Institute of Applied Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Institute of Applied Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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The mechanisms of action of chromatin remodelers and implications in development and disease. Biochem Pharmacol 2020; 180:114200. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bcp.2020.114200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2020] [Revised: 08/09/2020] [Accepted: 08/12/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Hada A, Hota SK, Luo J, Lin YC, Kale S, Shaytan AK, Bhardwaj SK, Persinger J, Ranish J, Panchenko AR, Bartholomew B. Histone Octamer Structure Is Altered Early in ISW2 ATP-Dependent Nucleosome Remodeling. Cell Rep 2020; 28:282-294.e6. [PMID: 31269447 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.05.106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2017] [Revised: 04/24/2019] [Accepted: 05/29/2019] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Nucleosomes are the fundamental building blocks of chromatin that regulate DNA access and are composed of histone octamers. ATP-dependent chromatin remodelers like ISW2 regulate chromatin access by translationally moving nucleosomes to different DNA regions. We find that histone octamers are more pliable than previously assumed and distorted by ISW2 early in remodeling before DNA enters nucleosomes and the ATPase motor moves processively on nucleosomal DNA. Uncoupling the ATPase activity of ISW2 from nucleosome movement with deletion of the SANT domain from the C terminus of the Isw2 catalytic subunit traps remodeling intermediates in which the histone octamer structure is changed. We find restricting histone movement by chemical crosslinking also traps remodeling intermediates resembling those seen early in ISW2 remodeling with loss of the SANT domain. Other evidence shows histone octamers are intrinsically prone to changing their conformation and can be distorted merely by H3-H4 tetramer disulfide crosslinking.
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- Arjan Hada
- Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - Science Park, Smithville, TX 78957, USA; Catalent Pharma Solutions, 726 Heartland Trail, Madison, WI 53717, USA
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- Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - Science Park, Smithville, TX 78957, USA
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- Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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- Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - Science Park, Smithville, TX 78957, USA
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- Computational Biology Branch, National Center for Biotechnology Information National Library of Medicine, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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- Computational Biology Branch, National Center for Biotechnology Information National Library of Medicine, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA; Department of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russia
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- Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - Science Park, Smithville, TX 78957, USA; BioTherapeutics Pharmaceutical Sciences, Bioprocess Research & Development, Pfizer, 700 Chesterfield Parkway West, Chesterfield, MO 63017, USA
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- Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - Science Park, Smithville, TX 78957, USA
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- Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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- Computational Biology Branch, National Center for Biotechnology Information National Library of Medicine, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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- Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - Science Park, Smithville, TX 78957, USA.
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Target search and recognition mechanisms of glycosylase AlkD revealed by scanning FRET-FCS and Markov state models. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020; 117:21889-21895. [PMID: 32820079 PMCID: PMC7486748 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2002971117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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DNA glycosylase repairs DNA damage to maintain the genome integrity, and thus it is essential for the survival of all organisms. However, it remains a long-standing puzzle how glycosylase diffuses along the genomic DNA to locate the sparse and aberrant lesion sites efficiently and accurately in the genome containing numerous base pairs. Previously, only the high-speed–low-accuracy search mode has been characterized experimentally, while the low-speed–high-accuracy mode is undetectable. Here, we observed the low-speed mode of glycosylase AlkD translocating, and further dissected its molecular mechanisms. To achieve this, we developed an integrated platform by combining scanning FRET-FCS with Markov state model. We expect that this platform can be widely applied to investigate other glycosylases and DNA-binding proteins. DNA glycosylase is responsible for repairing DNA damage to maintain the genome stability and integrity. However, how glycosylase can efficiently and accurately recognize DNA lesions across the enormous DNA genome remains elusive. It has been hypothesized that glycosylase translocates along the DNA by alternating between a fast but low-accuracy diffusion mode and a slow but high-accuracy mode when searching for DNA lesions. However, the slow mode has not been successfully characterized due to the limitation in the spatial and temporal resolutions of current experimental techniques. Using a newly developed scanning fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)–fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) platform, we were able to observe both slow and fast modes of glycosylase AlkD translocating on double-stranded DNA (dsDNA), reaching the temporal resolution of microsecond and spatial resolution of subnanometer. The underlying molecular mechanism of the slow mode was further elucidated by Markov state model built from extensive all-atom molecular dynamics simulations. We found that in the slow mode, AlkD follows an asymmetric diffusion pathway, i.e., rotation followed by translation. Furthermore, the essential role of Y27 in AlkD diffusion dynamics was identified both experimentally and computationally. Our results provided mechanistic insights on how conformational dynamics of AlkD–dsDNA complex coordinate different diffusion modes to accomplish the search for DNA lesions with high efficiency and accuracy. We anticipate that the mechanism adopted by AlkD to search for DNA lesions could be a general one utilized by other glycosylases and DNA binding proteins.
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Soman A, Liew CW, Teo HL, Berezhnoy NV, Olieric V, Korolev N, Rhodes D, Nordenskiöld L. The human telomeric nucleosome displays distinct structural and dynamic properties. Nucleic Acids Res 2020; 48:5383-5396. [PMID: 32374876 PMCID: PMC7261157 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkaa289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2020] [Revised: 04/01/2020] [Accepted: 05/05/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Telomeres protect the ends of our chromosomes and are key to maintaining genomic integrity during cell division and differentiation. However, our knowledge of telomeric chromatin and nucleosome structure at the molecular level is limited. Here, we aimed to define the structure, dynamics as well as properties in solution of the human telomeric nucleosome. We first determined the 2.2 Å crystal structure of a human telomeric nucleosome core particle (NCP) containing 145 bp DNA, which revealed the same helical path for the DNA as well as symmetric stretching in both halves of the NCP as that of the 145 bp ‘601’ NCP. In solution, the telomeric nucleosome exhibited a less stable and a markedly more dynamic structure compared to NCPs containing DNA positioning sequences. These observations provide molecular insights into how telomeric DNA forms nucleosomes and chromatin and advance our understanding of the unique biological role of telomeres.
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- Aghil Soman
- School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technology University, 60 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 637551, Singapore
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- NTU Institute of Structural Biology, Nanyang Technological University, 59 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 636921, Singapore
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- NTU Institute of Structural Biology, Nanyang Technological University, 59 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 636921, Singapore
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- School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technology University, 60 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 637551, Singapore.,Singapore Centre for Environmental Sciences Engineering (SCELSE), Nanyang Technological University, 60 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 637551, Singapore
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- Paul Scherrer Institute, Forschungsstrasse 111, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technology University, 60 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 637551, Singapore
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- School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technology University, 60 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 637551, Singapore.,NTU Institute of Structural Biology, Nanyang Technological University, 59 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 636921, Singapore.,School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 62 Nanyang Drive, Singapore
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- School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technology University, 60 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 637551, Singapore
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While recent experiments revealed that some pioneer transcription factors (TFs) can bind to their target DNA sequences inside a nucleosome, the binding dynamics of their target recognitions are poorly understood. Here we used the latest coarse-grained models and molecular dynamics simulations to study the nucleosome-binding procedure of the two pioneer TFs, Sox2 and Oct4. In the simulations for a strongly positioning nucleosome, Sox2 selected its target DNA sequence only when the target was exposed. Otherwise, Sox2 entropically bound to the dyad region nonspecifically. In contrast, Oct4 plastically bound on the nucleosome mainly in two ways. First, the two POU domains of Oct4 separately bound to the two parallel gyres of the nucleosomal DNA, supporting the previous experimental results of the partial motif recognition. Second, the POUS domain of Oct4 favored binding on the acidic patch of histones. Then, simulating the TFs binding to a genomic nucleosome, the LIN28B nucleosome, we found that the recognition of a pseudo motif by Sox2 induced the local DNA bending and shifted the population of the rotational position of the nucleosomal DNA. The redistributed DNA phase, in turn, changed the accessibility of a distant TF binding site, which consequently affected the binding probability of a second Sox2 or Oct4. These results revealed a nucleosomal DNA-mediated allosteric mechanism, through which one TF binding event can change the global conformation, and effectively regulate the binding of another TF at distant sites. Our simulations provide insights into the binding mechanism of single and multiple TFs on the nucleosome.
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Bacic L, Sabantsev A, Deindl S. Recent advances in single-molecule fluorescence microscopy render structural biology dynamic. Curr Opin Struct Biol 2020; 65:61-68. [PMID: 32634693 DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2020.05.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2020] [Revised: 05/21/2020] [Accepted: 05/21/2020] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Single-molecule fluorescence microscopy has long been appreciated as a powerful tool to study the structural dynamics that enable biological function of macromolecules. Recent years have witnessed the development of more complex single-molecule fluorescence techniques as well as powerful combinations with structural approaches to obtain mechanistic insights into the workings of various molecular machines and protein complexes. In this review, we highlight these developments that together bring us one step closer to a dynamic understanding of biological processes in atomic details.
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- Luka Bacic
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
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- Gregory D Bowman
- Thomas C. Jenkins Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
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Zhong Y, Paudel BP, Ryan DP, Low JKK, Franck C, Patel K, Bedward MJ, Torrado M, Payne RJ, van Oijen AM, Mackay JP. CHD4 slides nucleosomes by decoupling entry- and exit-side DNA translocation. Nat Commun 2020; 11:1519. [PMID: 32251276 PMCID: PMC7090039 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15183-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2019] [Accepted: 02/21/2020] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Chromatin remodellers hydrolyse ATP to move nucleosomal DNA against histone octamers. The mechanism, however, is only partially resolved, and it is unclear if it is conserved among the four remodeller families. Here we use single-molecule assays to examine the mechanism of action of CHD4, which is part of the least well understood family. We demonstrate that the binding energy for CHD4-nucleosome complex formation-even in the absence of nucleotide-triggers significant conformational changes in DNA at the entry side, effectively priming the system for remodelling. During remodelling, flanking DNA enters the nucleosome in a continuous, gradual manner but exits in concerted 4-6 base-pair steps. This decoupling of entry- and exit-side translocation suggests that ATP-driven movement of entry-side DNA builds up strain inside the nucleosome that is subsequently released at the exit side by DNA expulsion. Based on our work and previous studies, we propose a mechanism for nucleosome sliding.
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- Yichen Zhong
- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
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- Molecular Horizons, School of Chemistry and Molecular Bioscience, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, 2522, Australia.,Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute, Wollongong, NSW, 2522, Australia
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- Department of Genome Sciences, The John Curtin School of Medical Research, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia.,School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
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- School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
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- Molecular Horizons, School of Chemistry and Molecular Bioscience, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, 2522, Australia. .,Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute, Wollongong, NSW, 2522, Australia.
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia.
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Dao HT, Dul BE, Dann GP, Liszczak GP, Muir TW. A basic motif anchoring ISWI to nucleosome acidic patch regulates nucleosome spacing. Nat Chem Biol 2020; 16:134-142. [PMID: 31819269 PMCID: PMC6982587 DOI: 10.1038/s41589-019-0413-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2019] [Accepted: 10/22/2019] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Recent studies have implicated the nucleosome acidic patch in the activity of ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling machines. We used a photocrosslinking-based nucleosome profiling technology (photoscanning) to identify a conserved basic motif within the catalytic subunit of ISWI remodelers, SNF2h, which engages this nucleosomal epitope. This region of SNF2h is essential for chromatin remodeling activity in a reconstituted biochemical system and in cells. Our studies suggest that the basic motif in SNF2h plays a critical role in anchoring the remodeler to the nucleosomal surface. We also examine the functional consequences of several cancer-associated histone mutations that map to the nucleosome acidic patch. Kinetic studies using physiologically relevant heterotypic nucleosomal substrates ('Janus' nucleosomes) indicate that these cancer-associated mutations can disrupt regularly spaced chromatin structure by inducing ISWI-mediated unidirectional nucleosome sliding. These results indicate a potential mechanistic link between oncogenic histones and alterations to the chromatin landscape.
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- Hai T Dao
- Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
- Department of Biochemistry, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
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Blossey R, Schiessel H. Histone mark recognition controls nucleosome translocation via a kinetic proofreading mechanism: Confronting theory and high-throughput experiments. Phys Rev E 2019; 99:060401. [PMID: 31330635 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.99.060401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Chromatin remodelers are multidomain enzymatic motor complexes that displace nucleosomes along DNA and hence "remodel chromatin structure," i.e., they dynamically reorganize nucleosome positions in both gene activation and gene repression. Recently, experimental insights from structural biology methods and remodeling assays have substantially advanced the understanding of these key chromatin components. Here we confront the kinetic proofreading scenario of chromatin remodeling, which proposes a mechanical link between histone residue modifications and the ATP-dependent action of remodelers, with recent experiments. We show that recent high-throughput data on nucleosome libraries assayed with remodelers from the Imitation Switch family are in accord with our earlier predictions of the kinetic proofreading scenario. We make suggestions for experimentally verifiable predictions of the kinetic proofreading scenarios for remodelers from other families.
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- Ralf Blossey
- Université de Lille, CNRS, UMR8576 Unité de Glycobiologie Structurale et Fonctionnelle (UGSF), F-59000 Lille, France
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- Institute Lorentz for Theoretical Physics, Leiden University, Niels Bohrweg 2, 2333 CA Leiden, The Netherlands
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Otterstrom J, Castells-Garcia A, Vicario C, Gomez-Garcia PA, Cosma MP, Lakadamyali M. Super-resolution microscopy reveals how histone tail acetylation affects DNA compaction within nucleosomes in vivo. Nucleic Acids Res 2019; 47:8470-8484. [PMID: 31287868 PMCID: PMC6895258 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkz593] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2019] [Revised: 05/31/2019] [Accepted: 07/04/2019] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Chromatin organization is crucial for regulating gene expression. Previously, we showed that nucleosomes form groups, termed clutches. Clutch size correlated with the pluripotency grade of mouse embryonic stem cells and human induced pluripotent stem cells. Recently, it was also shown that regions of the chromatin containing activating epigenetic marks were composed of small and dispersed chromatin nanodomains with lower DNA density compared to the larger silenced domains. Overall, these results suggest that clutch size may regulate DNA packing density and gene activity. To directly test this model, we carried out 3D, two-color super-resolution microscopy of histones and DNA with and without increased histone tail acetylation. Our results showed that lower percentage of DNA was associated with nucleosome clutches in hyperacetylated cells. We further showed that the radius and compaction level of clutch-associated DNA decreased in hyperacetylated cells, especially in regions containing several neighboring clutches. Importantly, this change was independent of clutch size but dependent on the acetylation state of the clutch. Our results directly link the epigenetic state of nucleosome clutches to their DNA packing density. Our results further provide in vivo support to previous in vitro models that showed a disruption of nucleosome-DNA interactions upon hyperacetylation.
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- Jason Otterstrom
- ICFO-Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona
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- Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Dr. Aiguader 88, Barcelona 08003, Spain
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- Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Dr. Aiguader 88, Barcelona 08003, Spain
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- ICFO-Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona.,Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Dr. Aiguader 88, Barcelona 08003, Spain
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- Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Dr. Aiguader 88, Barcelona 08003, Spain.,Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain.,ICREA, Pg. Lluis Companys 23, Barcelona 08010, Spain.,Guangzhou Regenerative Medicine and Health Guangdong Laboratory (GRMH-GDL), Guangzhou 510005, China.,Key Laboratory of Regenerative Biology and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Science, Guangzhou 510530, China
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- ICFO-Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona.,Perelman School of Medicine, Department of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania, Clinical Research Building, 415 Curie Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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Nucleosome positioning controls the accessible regions of chromatin and plays essential roles in DNA-templated processes. ATP driven remodeling enzymes are known to be crucial for its establishment in vivo, but their nonequilibrium nature has hindered the development of a unified theoretical framework for nucleosome positioning. Using a perturbation theory, we show that the effect of these enzymes can be well approximated by effective equilibrium models with rescaled temperatures and interactions. Numerical simulations support the accuracy of the theory in predicting both kinetic and steady-state quantities, including the effective temperature and the radial distribution function, in biologically relevant regimes. The energy landscape view emerging from our study provides an intuitive understanding for the impact of remodeling enzymes in either reinforcing or overwriting intrinsic signals for nucleosome positioning, and may help improve the accuracy of computational models for its prediction in silico.
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Ma X, Zhu M, Liu J, Li X, Qu L, Liang L, Huang W, Wang J, Li N, Chen JH, Zhang W, Yu Z. Interactions between PHD3-Bromo of MLL1 and H3K4me3 Revealed by Single-Molecule Magnetic Tweezers in a Parallel DNA Circuit. Bioconjug Chem 2019; 30:2998-3006. [PMID: 31714753 DOI: 10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.9b00665] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Single-molecule force spectroscopy is a powerful tool to directly measure protein-protein interactions (PPI). The high specificity and precision of PPI measurements made it possible to reveal detailed mechanisms of intermolecular interactions. However, protein aggregation due to specific or nonspecific interactions is among the most challenging problems in PPI examination. Here, we propose a strategy of a parallel DNA circuit to probe PPI using single-molecule magnetic tweezers. In contrast to PPI examination using atomic force microscopy, microspheres as probes used in magnetic tweezers avoided the single-probe issue of a cantilever. Negatively charged DNA as a linker circumvented the severe aggregation in the PPI construct with a protein linker. The unnatural amino acid encoded in proteins of interest expanded the choices of biorthogonal conjugation. We demonstrated how to apply our strategy to probe the PPI between the PHD3-Bromo and the histone H3 methylated at K4, a critical epigenetic event in leukemia development. We found a rupture force of 12 pN for breaking the PPI, which is much higher than that required to peel DNA off from a nucleosome, 3 pN. We expect that our methods will make PPI measurements of mechanics and kinetics with great precision, facilitating PPI-related research, e.g., PPI-targeted drug discovery.
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- Xiaofeng Ma
- State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, College of Pharmacy , Nankai University , 38 Tongyan Rd , Tianjin 300353 , China
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- State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, College of Pharmacy , Nankai University , 38 Tongyan Rd , Tianjin 300353 , China
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- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry , Jilin University , Changchun 130012 , China
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- State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, College of Pharmacy , Nankai University , 38 Tongyan Rd , Tianjin 300353 , China
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- State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, College of Pharmacy , Nankai University , 38 Tongyan Rd , Tianjin 300353 , China
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- State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, College of Pharmacy , Nankai University , 38 Tongyan Rd , Tianjin 300353 , China
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- State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, College of Pharmacy , Nankai University , 38 Tongyan Rd , Tianjin 300353 , China
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- State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, College of Pharmacy , Nankai University , 38 Tongyan Rd , Tianjin 300353 , China
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- State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, College of Pharmacy , Nankai University , 38 Tongyan Rd , Tianjin 300353 , China
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- National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, WHO Collaborating Center for Tropical Diseases, National Center for International Research on Tropical Diseases , Key Laboratory of Parasite and Vector Biology, Ministry of Health , Shanghai 200025 , China
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- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry , Jilin University , Changchun 130012 , China
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- State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, College of Pharmacy , Nankai University , 38 Tongyan Rd , Tianjin 300353 , China
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Additive manufacturing of laminar flow cells for single-molecule experiments. Sci Rep 2019; 9:16784. [PMID: 31727950 PMCID: PMC6856346 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-53151-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2019] [Accepted: 10/22/2019] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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A microfluidic laminar flow cell (LFC) forms an indispensable component in single-molecule experiments, enabling different substances to be delivered directly to the point under observation and thereby tightly controlling the biochemical environment immediately surrounding single molecules. Despite substantial progress in the production of such components, the process remains relatively inefficient, inaccurate and time-consuming. Here we address challenges and limitations in the routines, materials and the designs that have been commonly employed in the field, and introduce a new generation of LFCs designed for single-molecule experiments and assembled using additive manufacturing. We present single- and multi-channel, as well as reservoir-based LFCs produced by 3D printing to perform single-molecule experiments. Using these flow cells along with optical tweezers, we show compatibility with single-molecule experiments including the isolation and manipulation of single DNA molecules either attached to the surface of a coverslip or as freely movable DNA dumbbells, as well as direct observation of protein-DNA interactions. Using additive manufacturing to produce LFCs with versatility of design and ease of production allow experimentalists to optimize the flow cells to their biological experiments and provide considerable potential for performing multi-component single-molecule experiments.
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Heiss G, Ploetz E, Voith von Voithenberg L, Viswanathan R, Glaser S, Schluesche P, Madhira S, Meisterernst M, Auble DT, Lamb DC. Conformational changes and catalytic inefficiency associated with Mot1-mediated TBP-DNA dissociation. Nucleic Acids Res 2019; 47:2793-2806. [PMID: 30649478 PMCID: PMC6451094 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gky1322] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2018] [Revised: 12/21/2018] [Accepted: 01/07/2019] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The TATA-box Binding Protein (TBP) plays a central role in regulating gene expression and is the first step in the process of pre-initiation complex (PIC) formation on promoter DNA. The lifetime of TBP at the promoter site is controlled by several cofactors including the Modifier of transcription 1 (Mot1), an essential TBP-associated ATPase. Based on ensemble measurements, Mot1 can use adenosine triphosphate (ATP) hydrolysis to displace TBP from DNA and various models for how this activity is coupled to transcriptional regulation have been proposed. However, the underlying molecular mechanism of Mot1 action is not well understood. In this work, the interaction of Mot1 with the DNA/TBP complex was investigated by single-pair Förster resonance energy transfer (spFRET). Upon Mot1 binding to the DNA/TBP complex, a transition in the DNA/TBP conformation was observed. Hydrolysis of ATP by Mot1 led to a conformational change but was not sufficient to efficiently disrupt the complex. SpFRET measurements of dual-labeled DNA suggest that Mot1's ATPase activity primes incorrectly oriented TBP for dissociation from DNA and additional Mot1 in solution is necessary for TBP unbinding. These findings provide a framework for understanding how the efficiency of Mot1's catalytic activity is tuned to establish a dynamic pool of TBP without interfering with stable and functional TBP-containing complexes.
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- Gregor Heiss
- Department für Chemie, Center for Nanoscience (CeNS), Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich (CIPSM) and Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München 81377, Germany
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- Department für Chemie, Center for Nanoscience (CeNS), Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich (CIPSM) and Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München 81377, Germany
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- Department für Chemie, Center for Nanoscience (CeNS), Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich (CIPSM) and Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München 81377, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
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- Department für Chemie, Center for Nanoscience (CeNS), Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich (CIPSM) and Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München 81377, Germany
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- Department für Chemie, Center for Nanoscience (CeNS), Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich (CIPSM) and Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München 81377, Germany
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- Department für Chemie, Center for Nanoscience (CeNS), Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich (CIPSM) and Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München 81377, Germany
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- Institut für Molekulare Tumorbiologie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster 48149, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
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- Department für Chemie, Center for Nanoscience (CeNS), Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich (CIPSM) and Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München 81377, Germany
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Ye Y, Wu H, Chen K, Clapier CR, Verma N, Zhang W, Deng H, Cairns BR, Gao N, Chen Z. Structure of the RSC complex bound to the nucleosome. Science 2019; 366:838-843. [PMID: 31672915 DOI: 10.1126/science.aay0033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2019] [Accepted: 10/20/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
Abstract
The RSC complex remodels chromatin structure and regulates gene transcription. We used cryo-electron microscopy to determine the structure of yeast RSC bound to the nucleosome. RSC is delineated into the adenosine triphosphatase motor, the actin-related protein module, and the substrate recruitment module (SRM). RSC binds the nucleosome mainly through the motor, with the auxiliary subunit Sfh1 engaging the H2A-H2B acidic patch to enable nucleosome ejection. SRM is organized into three substrate-binding lobes poised to bind their respective nucleosomal epitopes. The relative orientations of the SRM and the motor on the nucleosome explain the directionality of DNA translocation and promoter nucleosome repositioning by RSC. Our findings shed light on RSC assembly and functionality, and they provide a framework to understand the mammalian homologs BAF/PBAF and the Sfh1 ortholog INI1/BAF47, which are frequently mutated in cancers.
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- Youpi Ye
- MOE Key Laboratory of Protein Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P.R. China.,School of Life Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P.R. China
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- School of Life Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P.R. China.,Peking University-Tsinghua University-National Institute of Biological Sciences Joint Graduate Program, Beijing 100084, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Protein Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P.R. China.,School of Life Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P.R. China
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Oncological Sciences, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Oncological Sciences, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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- School of Life Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P.R. China
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- School of Life Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P.R. China
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Oncological Sciences, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA.
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Peking-Tsinghua Joint Center for Life Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Protein Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P.R. China. .,School of Life Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P.R. China.,Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology, Beijing 100084, China
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Mohapatra S, Lin CT, Feng XA, Basu A, Ha T. Single-Molecule Analysis and Engineering of DNA Motors. Chem Rev 2019; 120:36-78. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.9b00361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, United States
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